A Model-based Approach for Engineering Multimodal Mobile Interactions
Nadia Elouali, Xavier Le Pallec, José Rouillard, Jean-Claude Tarby · 2014
Mobile phones have benefited from many enhancements since several years, including an increasing number of their embedded sensors (accelerometer, light sensor...). Created for giving context-aware abilities, these sensors also allow new types of interaction and pave the way to a great expansion of multimodal mobile interactions. Unfortunately, the current context of mobile software development makes difficult the development of multimodal applications. We propose our model-based solution that aims to facilitate the development of multimodal mobile interfaces. We adopt the principles of the Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) which is particularly fitted for such context. Our proposition includes M4L modeling language, library of high-level sensor-based modalities and MIMIC framework. Our approach respects the main criteria of the MDE in order to define an efficient model-based approach. Results of the first evaluation suggest that using our approach facilitates the development of sensor-based multimodal mobile interfaces.